Trail cameras are ruining deer hunting!

[@rossbideon]

Newer hunters are much less savvy hunters than hunters that started before trail cams no doubt. You’re spot on. And if you’re watching tv hunters and think you’re learning real time lessons you’re screwed. 👍🦌

[@robertcarte95]

I can dig it!! My problem with trail cameras is that people try to claim public land places by putting a camera there.

[@DonAndrews-c9x]

Also by planting a permanently placed stand. No stands should be left overnight on public.

[@jarod.outdoors]

Public land across all 50 US states should ban trail cameras on public land for many reasons. If you are a private landowner being squeezed of every tax dollar by the government have at it, it’s a great tool and it’s your land.

[@katkilr7685]

Just because you are too broke to afford them is not the rest of our fault.

[@jarod.outdoors]

@@katkilr7685 I own two…

[@katkilr7685]

@jarod.outdoors Then that tells me you must be a Democrat. You want others to not use what you use. There are millions of hunters that don't have their own land so they have to use public land. You should look up the word. Hypocrite

[@RangerVt.802]

It’s mind boggling how many didn’t even watch the video and commented.😂 He likes trail cameras !

[@BringEmBackAlive]

Too many boomer fudds man, you can’t expect too much out of them 😂

[@briankinnane5224]

Then his post it’s click bait?

[@LizardKing513]

100% agree for private land. As for public land, I’d like to see them banned. The reason has nothing to do with woodsmanship or skill. They are an invasion of privacy and cheapens the experience of hunting when there’s a trail cam or 3 of them at every doe bedding area, perenial scrape, pinch point and funnel. It has gotten out of hand and needs to stop. Another solution are for the states to designate certain tracts to permit cameras where the other ones are camera-less.

[@johnengle4707]

Invasion of privacy on public land lol. That's ironic...there's no privacy in public Land hence the public...😔

[@mattmesey5569]

Invasion of privacy in the woods? What are you doing??

[@bobcat4443]

I agree, I hate seeing those things in the woods

[@jennyrickner7607]

My state of Arizona banned them for hunting based on feedback from the hunting community. Most of the other western states have already banned them for hunting use. Seems like a trend.

[@barrystricklin2230]

Now the camera users call deer inventory trying to be like tv hunters tv has also ruining hunting

[@deepwood4]

💯

[@MorrowSind]

Forget trail cameras, get a better camera for your channel. 🙈

[@happilyretiredmark2964]

100% true. Same with Livescope and fishing.

[@nancyk.l8056]

The era of instant gratification. Not many "hunters" around. They're not as bad as the cross bow rage. Eight year old sitting in a box blind over a food plot with a scoped cross bow and dad says shoot that one. Not deer hunters, just deer killers.

[@adammucha3917]

I agree 💯. I was never put in a spot , and never hunted a box blind. My opinion, you put a child in a spot, shoots a giant that will never get again, kid quits

[@rimshotbladely7946]

My comment got deleted lol

[@maxpinson5002]

There are regions where you can't stalk and some leases I've hunted are assigned to keep people from running over each other. The public hunting drawing hunts are that way, hunters assigned to "compartments " to keep everybody separated

[@jeffking695]

Agree 100%

[@DonAndrews-c9x]

Would you rather the kid be playing nintendo, sitting on thier phones watching fags act like kids, laying on the couch soaking in the devious TV crap. How bad is a young one in a blind with a crossbow being introduced to hunting. Then graduating to learning more and more about woodsmanship, respect for the animals, pride in making thier properties better by helping dad and grandpa plant trees, plots etc. Soundslike jealousy toward that 8 year old kid to me. ABSOLUTELY MORE adults NEED to get that 8 yr. old in a blind.

[@shawnpowers3267]

He's talking about evil game cameras and 666 while he's positioned perfectly to make it look there's horns on his head 😂

[@glockfanboy4927]

10 percent of the hunters harvest 90 percent of the deer!! So blame the man in the mirror........

[@byroncharles]

I agree baned on Public, the same way i cant leave my blind or tree stand overnight. Private is fine the owner should dictate what is on his land

[@Camera1931-p5v]

They help catch trespassers! I use cameras on my property and will continue to forever! Love my cameras for inventory for sure! Great job!

[@jamescampbell7189]

I actually caught a burglar riding a stolen 4-wheeler from my neighbor

[@kevinlivingston1620]

It's a valuable tool. But I think it does steal some of the magic

[@buckfifty-two-thousand8640]

I sit in the woods and observe 😊

[@anthonymartinez4462]

Next on deer hunting television 📺 hunting from your living room using a drone all from the comfort of the room

[@RealWorldDeerHunter-tr3qv]

think I can get views????

[@deepwood4]

Trail cameras on public land are litter, plain and simple. Treat them accordingly.

[@clayjones553]

That's pretty messed up. Only a jerk would destroy someone's privacy just because you don't like it there. Edit. Meant to write property not privacy.

[@LittleRayOfSnshine69]

@clayjones553 There is no privacy on public land, buddy.

[@deepwood4]

@@clayjones553 I didn't say anything about destroying anything.

[@deepwood4]

@@LittleRayOfSnshine69 there's no littering either.

[@clayjones553]

@deepwood4 you said treat them like litter, which is thrown away and destroyed. I have two trail cameras which I like to use to help scout public land areas. I always hunt places where no one else really goes. I leave them put a few weeks a year and I get them after season. They aren't hurting anything and no one else probably ever passes by them. I'd be pretty angry if someone stole or destroyed them. But I do understand howits frustrating when people are putting them out all over the place and pretending like they can claim a spot just because they hang a camera.

[@maxpinson5002]

Just me- people should be able to do what they want that's legal on their own land. The thing that does bother me about game camera use is how some "claim" an animal and get buttsore if someone else takes it. Heard of it more than once. " Uh. . . I've had that buck on my camera for two years now and I was waiting until next year to take it . . . " Seriously. For really real. Some really hard feelings over "camera claiming " Hard feelings, red faces, and bad words. Sorry, but in this state, all free ranging wild deer are public property until you legally kill it and tag it

[@DonAndrews-c9x]

Trail cams let you know certain bucks exist that you NEVER would have known about. Shows you how smart a mature buck actually is. Cams let you know what bucks made it thru the season. Cams build a history on a buck from year to year. The downside of cams are some hunters cannot leave them alone and are constantly invading a area checking them. Thus lessening thier chances at actually killing that buck.

[@KenBridgeman]

I have one camera it's in my backyard I don't hunt behind my house but I could otherwise where I hunt I do not use them

[@frez777]

Google Earth is more damaging to hunting in my opinion

[@whitehondarider22]

On X

[@Bob-w5c3d]

Opinions are like buttholes.......

[@LittleRayOfSnshine69]

Says the asshole that's had a few cameras disappear from public land, eh? 🤣

[@Josh-gy8zi]

Its funny my brother and I just had a conversation along these lines just the other day. We are undecided if we are for or against cameras. We use them, with success. My argument to him was " don't you kinda think hunting was more fun when we didn't really know what might come along?" You might get the odd buck pass through,but for the most part we know exactly what's out there and we are really only hunting a couple different deer in a season. Not really sure. I have been slightly more successful since the cameras, but is that because I know something a little bigger is still out there so I pass on what I use to shoot previously? Good luck to all hunters 2024

[@davyjones922]

If you enjoy seeing pictures of deer then take the time to go sit in the woods and photograph them with an actual camera. But of course that the whole point, everyone wants the rewards and gratification without the work and bother. 🙄

[@nathanhoffman9579]

Social media and technology has ruined deer hunting as well. There are no more secret spots due to apps like ONX and Huntstand. Also the KZbinrs hunting the public land show you how and where to go. Then everyone sees this and the next year that spot will be hammered by hunters. Even people that have their own private land are on the public land hunting wagon due to this trend. It has happened in my area. Hopefully that trend dies back down.

[@frez777]

the real problem!!!

[@brob-zy8zi]

A camera will do a few things for me. One, they simply verify what I think is going on based on what I see on a map and during scouting. Another thing it does is show me what's there and when. I hunt the big woods mountains. Bucks roam far and wide. They have vast areas that they'll travel over tens of thousands of acres. They don't have small patterns, they have circuits most times that they travel. Here today and then it's "see ya in a week or two" even in summer. The key here is the rut. Doe groups can be concentrated in small bedding areas and they go into heat at the same time every year. Some areas I identify have early does. Some pop in mid November. Most are highly active from the 6th through the 10th or 11th with the 7th, 8th, and 9th being the biggest days for daylight movement with "daylight" being the key word here. The areas or spots I look for concentrate secure daylight movement where 70% or more of the pictures you get of older bucks is during shooting light. You can miss that spot by just 50 or 75 yards and get plenty of bucks.... 99% at night. Another thing game cameras do for me is give me a window into the world I'm hunting in. When deer disappear from the area it can help me figure out why. This year, for example, I had a camera in a spot that all of a sudden went all but dead. It was one of few areas full of acorns. My camera gave me a great clue. It had become overrun with bears. They'll push deer out of an area. For two weeks straight it was one bear after another after another. I also get fantastic videos and pictures of other wildlife which I enjoy watching very much along with all the deer I get to watch. Lots of bears, some porcupines, hawks, Turkeys and at night I'll get videos of flying squirrels. Finally, they save me time that I just don't have. I work an hour away from home. It's another 30 minutes to where I hunt. It's an hour or more walk in to some of my very best spots. I work 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. I have 3 little girls... a 4yo and 2yo twins. The little time I have at home is dedicated to my family as much as I can make it so. My hunting is becoming more calculated strikes than a season long venture. Trail cameras aren't the devil. They're tools. When situations change or life happens we have to adapt. I already had to adapt to hunting with a crossbow after rupturing both of my distal biceps tendons in a 2.5 year span... I had to learn to get over my fear of heights to hunt in a treestand to help raise my odds a little more. Now, I use trail cameras because I don't have all the time in the world as a husband and father to scout and observe like when I was in my 20s and 30s.... Thanks for your videos!

[@Riflehunter-308]

I don't think they are fair on public because if this guy puts his camera up nearly year round then I don't think that is fair to anyone else. and which means thats going to eliminate that property which equals less public land to hunt and if half the ppl on public put cameras out like that... but yes private land owners pay taxes so they ought to be allowed to use them.

[@vtcrafter6626]

There are def good and bad uses for cameras. Things have def gotten out of control. I like to use them to figure out if it’s day time activity or night time. I also won’t put the near where I’m going to hang a stand. Old mature deer will avoid the area where the camera is. Cheers.

[@robbobcat7286]

How about fish finders?

[@davidburley4196]

Invasion of privacy !

[@robertmauldin4987]

How many gadgets do deer hunters these days need? I always thought that a scoped rifle and a tree stand was more than enough. Deer can’t use cameras to monitor our movements why should we use cameras to monitor theirs? It just goes against fair chase standards and development of basic woodsman’s and hunting skills. If shooting a buck monitored by camera over your corn feeder while using your scent lock suit and ozonics in your heated box blind is good for you, have at it.

[@Spike-w5o]

I agree 😮

[@toddhaizlip1785]

I like them for inventory purposes

[@user-gh1pf1dk7w]

Well you know what they say about opinions

[@adamdrouin2295]

But in reality they are ruining hunting. The benefits you mentioned sound nice until it gets to the obnoxious level we now see where there are cameras littered throughout the woods just about everywhere. It cheapens the experience of not only hunting but just being in the woods themselves

[@AdvancedLawn]

Agreed!!!!

[@wolvesnight]

I think if it gets people out in the woods to hunt , or just getting them out there is key. No one hunter hunts the same. Its kinda like collecting maple syrup from your favorite maple trees.. the excitment is real and the anticipation runs deep. We need management from all hunters ,.. if its legal by all means use it. Remember its about enjoying the great outdoors so lets just do that ....and let those who choose what tools they need ...to enjoy that also.😊

[@LittleRayOfSnshine69]

Seeing plastic strapped to trees taking photos of me during my outings culls my enjoyment of the outdoors. Like finding garbage in the middle of nowhere.

[@dualthreatoutdoors]

Agree 1000% Steve!

[@shannonmcdonald4825]

very well said

[@wallyseefeldt2312]

I agree 1000 percent

[@johnmcelroy2120]

Do have a bait pile

[@dannyloftis3949]

I don't get your title and what you rambled on about sounds like you like cameras.

[@kendittig6142]

agree. i wont run one

[@KrisG-b7v]

Absolutely its a joke

[@timlandis6690]

Thank you

[@bigracer3867]

Well sadly nowadays people don’t have time to learn hunting 🎉🎉 so just way it goes. 🎉🎉

[@RamBo-uu9so]

Mind your own..........

[@Kenneymoe]

Hey Steve don't you also have a fishing channel on KZbin I forgot the name of it I believe I used to watch what's the name I want start watching it again an sub

[@RealWorldDeerHunter-tr3qv]

Steve Horvath fishing

[@ShooterMcNut]

AR platforms are also ruining it

[@CM-fk8mu]

Tell me how anAR is different than a Remington woods master or and other semi automatic rifle.

[@joehorvath3001]

Baiting is ruining hunting

[@micon9460]

Haha woodsmanship?!?!?! You seem angry because you shoot tiny bucks. Although I do agree cell cams ruin hunting

[@mikeg1766]

😂

[@handlesaredumb1]

So are trophy hunters and turning it into a "sport".

[@LittleRayOfSnshine69]

I trophy hunt. I let two small bucks walk this season. They're guaranteed to end up dead anyway, considering public land is right next door. So, tell me how waiting around for the bigger deer is ruining hunting when public land hunters kill whatever the fuck they want.

[@jeffamckee]

Trail cameras are set for different reasons for different hunters. I use and love them. The reason why I use them is because when a 120 steps out in front of me, if there's a 145 on the property, I know to let the 120 walk.

[@LittleRayOfSnshine69]

Most people hunting public land hang around for both. You're the exception, not the rule.

[@kurtthorpe7659]

Cell cameras and bait(food plots). The modern hunter.

[@readbtl3838]

I’ve got trail cameras on my property just to see what animals are on my property as well as catch trespassers. I don’t hunt my property because I’ve only got 6 acres but I do like them.

[@thomasanderson2870]

I put mine out AFTER the season just to see what bucks made it through the season, never during the season cause they ALWAYS get stolen from my land 🫣😖🤬

[@RealWorldDeerHunter-tr3qv]

unfortunate reality